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| h1 Courses of Interest: | h1 Courses of Interest: |
| (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#top) | (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#top) |
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| h2 Biological Engineering | h2 Biological Engineering |
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| h3 Macroepidemiology | h3 Macroepidemiology |
| (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-102Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm) | (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-102Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm) |
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| __Course Description__: | __Course Description__: |
| This course presents a challenging multi-dimensional perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and infectious diseases. | This course presents a challenging multi-dimensional perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and infectious diseases. |
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| | h3 Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health |
| | (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-104JSpring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm) |
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| | This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making. |
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| | __Selected Lecture Notes__: |
| | (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-104JSpring-2005/LectureNotes/index.htm) |
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| | Introductory Lecture |
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| | Watch film A Civil Action |
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| | From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again |
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| | Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time |
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| | Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk |
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| | Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance |
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| | Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean |
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| | Confidence Intervals |
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| | Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations |
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| | Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power |
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| | Environetics: Cause and Effect |
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| | Environetics: Study Design - Retrospective versus Prospective |
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| | Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating Studies |
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| | Quiz #1: Epidemiology-Biostatistics |
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| | Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma |
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| | Quantitative Risk Assessment 1 |
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| | Quantitative Risk Assessment 2 |
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| | Toxicology 1 |
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| | Toxicology 2 |
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| | Toxicology 3 |
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| | Toxicology 4 |
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| | Toxicology 5 |
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| | Quantitative Risk Assessment 3 |
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| | Quantitative Risk Assessment 4 |